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Journal was banned and all copies were seized and destroyed by order of May 21, 1789. de Crosne, lieutenant of police.
The Letters are presented as a correspondence with the header "Gentlemen"; the records of the Assembly take the form of a continuous speech; a special place is reserved for the speeches of a “deputy of the Commons”: Mirabeau himself. Contains several letters signed "Salaville". From the XIth Letter, the editors are L.E. Dumont and J.A. Du Roveray, according to the Souvenirs de Dumont.
Mirabeau writes in his first letter: Appointed your representative in the Estates General, I owe you a particular account of all that relates to public affairs: since it is physically impossible for me to fulfill this duty towards you all, other than by way of printing, allow me to publish this correspondence and that it become common between you and the Nation; for although you have more direct rights to the instructions that my letters may contain, each member of the States General must consider himself, not as the deputy of an order, or of a district, but as the legitimate procurator of the entire Nation. , he would fail in the first of his engagements if he did not inform himself of everything that could interest him; no one without exception could oppose it, without being guilty of the crime of national lèse-majesté, since even, from individual to individual, it would be a most atrocious injustice.
Author: Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti Mirabeau
Title: Letter from the Count of Mirabeau to his constituents.
Publisher: [Le Jay fils], [Paris] and 1789 in -8, variable pagination from 16 to 60 p.
Cardboard in bradel, spine decorated with a piece of red leather.
Superficial scuffs on both caps. slight wetting on the first 5 sheets. Pronounced wetness on the letters 12,13,14 and 15;
Untrimmed notebooks, uncut pages. neatly printed on laid paper.
Heraldic ex-libris next to the first delivery.
Subject: Mirabeau Revolutionary Journal Collection of 15 Letters from the Count of Mirabeau to his constituents. 1789 67505579
